The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-12
a Chain of Bright Resorts, of which
Sea Isle City IL a Shining Link.

Did you ever notice how many of the
seaside resorts on the New Jersey coast
are on islands From Sandy Hook to
Cape May, a distance of one hundred and
twenty-seven miles, is string of resorts,
fully seventy-five in number. For at least
two-thiI ds of this distance the cities by the
sea are planted upon sandy beaches out in
the sea. From Sandy Hook to Bay Head
the resorts are on the main land These
include Long Branch, Asbury Park, Ocean
Grove, Ocean Beach, Spring Lake and Sea
Girt, and dozen places not as well known.
From Bay Head, at the top of famous old
Barnegat Bay, it is possible to sail all the
way TO Cape May without going outside
the chain of Islands
First you will sail down Barnegat Bay,
passing Lavalleite, Ortley, Berkely, Seaside
Park and Island Beach. You cross Barne-
gat Inlet and skirt the shore Of Long Beach
Gan island), passing Barp' rat City Beach,
Harvey's Cedars, Beach aven and Sea
Haven. Across Little Egg Harbor Bay,
and you enter Absecon Bay, Brigantine
Island being between you and the ocean.
AT the sunken end of Brigentine you cross
the famous inlet and find yourself at At
lantic City. Through the thoroughfare and
your boat takes you to Longport at the
end of the island, Absecon, which has At
ltnllC lily dl tne HOIlHtIn GAlTeInlly
Across Great Egg Harbor Bay and you
reach Peck's Beach with Ocean City. An
other thoroughfare carries you past the
island to Corsops Inlct at the northern end
of Ludlam's Beach, likewise an island
upon which sea Isle CITY is built. Then
comes series of bays and inlets which
lead you by Holly Beach aud Anglesea to
Sewells Point al d Cape May.
WHAT u marve'ous coast this is And
where can anything like il be found And
all these resorts have been made possible
and been developed by the Pennsylvania
Railroad. 1t touches everywhere. Some
syndicate purchases a strip OF beach anC
improves it, Next we hear of Pennsyl.
vania Railroad branch penetrating 1t, and
10 it blossoms forth into full-fledged re,
sort with hotels and cottages. Before
many years there will be a continuous line
of rails from Sandy Hook to Cape May
Point, with not a mleof unoccupel beach
land.
Among these resorts you can make youl
choice. There is the fashion of Ions
Branch, Of Key East, of Sea Girt anc
Spring Lake; the less fashionable but still
gay and temperate Asbury Park; the grea
Methodist camp at Ocean Grove; the rest
less, crowded cosmopolitansm of Atlanti,
City, and the quiet elegance of Old Cape
May. Then there is the grand fishing anC
sailing of Barnegat Bay and the resorts o.
the neighborhood, and the equally goot
fishing OF the bays south of Atlantic City
Everybody goes to Atlantic, and rich anC
poor jostle each other on the beach and il
the hotel lobbies. But if you would b,
| rid of all that; II You would travel with
bag instead of trunk, and enjoy free
and easy life free from the dictates of fash
ion, go to Barnegat City Beach, Longport
| Ocean City, Sea Isle City, and Anglesea.
One of the newest places is Sea Isle. /
IS of easy access, and express trains owe
| the West Jersey road take you directly Il
| it IN two hours, 1t is only about five year,
| old, aud yet II rejoices in several hundred
| cottages and various hotels. Many of thes,
are built almost upon the very edge of tn
| sea, being separated from II only by SCI
| wall five or six feet high. The beach is a
| hard as plank, II is of peculiar quality
| The dazzling white of so many beaches Il
absent in this. Fine blacI sand is nike,
| with it in such quantities as to make il cas-
| for the eye. Aud there is no safer heacl
| to be found anywhere. Its sea wall is
novelty. The wall makes 1t possible TO
houses to be built close to the water, some
thing which is very rare Atlantic Cit
| and other resorts might take an idea fror
Sea Isle. A like wall at Atlantic woul
utilize many hundreds of acres.
You can do as you please at Sea Isle
for fashion will not dictate. If you al
tired Of the hurry -bnrly and wish To escap
the crowd there is no better place. Yo
can be comfortable and enjoy life by til
sea In its purity, Fishing, sailing an
grabbing will give you diversions on III
water, and excursion trips to Cape Ma
Ocean City, Longport, and Atlantic Gil
Awlll help you pass the time